“I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny”
Mark Twain
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to = remain silent.”
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
Voltaire
“The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.”
Hugo Black